PARTICIPANTS NEEDED FOR RESEARCH ON INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE SURVIVORS’ EXPERIENCES Have you ever been subjected to violence by an intimate partner? Did a law enforcement officer respond to an incident of abuse? Are you 18 years of age or older? We are looking for volunteers to take part in a study of intimate partner violence… Read more »
Consent Awareness Week The Athabasca University Students’ Union (AUSU) is proud to support the Possibility Seeds’ Courage to Act project, a national Consent Awareness Week with community partners across Canada, running annually during the third week of September. Consent education and preventing sexual violence are every bit as important for online as for in-person campuses…. Read more »
Twenty-two years after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, we sift through the reflections of Voice writers from the years following those events. Twin towers keychain, anyone? Travelling to NYC less than two years after the 9/11 attacks, Sara Kinninmont has mixed feelings about visiting the site of Ground Zero. “All these images swarmed… Read more »
Scholarship name: AES Engineering Scholarships Sponsored by: AES Engineering Deadline: October 8, 2023 Potential payout: $500 Eligibility restriction: Applicants must be high school seniors or students attending a post-secondary educational facility. What’s required: An email with contact and school info, along with an essay of 500-1000 words answering the following: When you look back on… Read more »
Library Chat Tues, Sep 12, 10:30 am to 2:30 pm MDT Online Hosted by AU Library www.athabascau.ca/library/index.html No pre-registration needed; access through chat box on home page Writing to win graduate awards and scholarships Tues, Sep 12, 12:30 to 1:45 pm MDT Online via Microsoft Teams Hosted by AU’s Write Site and AU Faculty of… Read more »
AU Facebook Win a Gift Card for $200. Enter a draw to win an Amazon gift card for September by writing a course review for the AUSU Peer Course Review Service. Visit https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/AUSUCourseReview. Reddit 2-Day Course Extension? A student who became ill is concerned about the AU course contract ending tomorrow. The student is seeking advice on where… Read more »
This intriguing posting covers COVID-19 and medical caregivers within relevant research literature. Qualitative studies, including media articles and narratives, will be combined and summarized as part of an ongoing data review. The successful applicant will gain invaluable experience and skills in the unique scientific art of qualitative research. Like many invisible or even marginalized aspects… Read more »
September generally brings an influx of new students to AU. We dug in the archives (but not too deeply) for some still-current advice for new students. Take a deep breath. Tara Panrucker lists eleven points of advice for new students. “Deadlines, long assignments, piles of research looming, and new jargon can all be taken in… Read more »
Library Chat Tues, Sep 5, 10:30 am to 2:30 pm MDT Online Hosted by AU Library www.athabascau.ca/library/index.html No pre-registration needed; access through chat box on home page Who, me? Cheat?: ChatGPT and Generative AI Tues, Sep 5, 12:30 to 1:30 pm MDT Online Hosted by AU Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Write Site, AU… Read more »
Scholarship name: William M Farley Memorial Award Sponsored by: Canadian Western Agribition Deadline: October 1, 2023 Potential payout: $1500 Eligibility restriction: Applicants must be passionate about agriculture and have participated in CWA as a participant or volunteer themselves or with their family, be enrolled in any academic program in a post-secondary educational institution, and be… Read more »